Sonoma State University
Department of Computer Science
CS-370: Software Design and Development
Exercise 4: Creating a PERT chart

OBJECTIVE

• To create a PERT chart from a given set of tasks with dependencies.

The exercise:

The following table contains a list of tasks and dependencies for the fictitious World of Z-Craft Project.

• The first column labeled "TASK" contains a list of tasks. Each task is labeled by a unique letter beginning with "A".
• The second column labeled "TIME (DAYS)" indicates the estimated amount of time (in days) for the task to be completed.
• The third column labeled "PREDECESSOR" indicates any dependency tasks (referenced by letter) from other rows that must be completed before the current task (indicated in first column of the row) is completed.

TASK	TIME (DAYS)	PREDECESSOR
A. Robotic control module	5	none
B. Texture library	5	C
C. Texture editor	4	none
D. Character editor	6	A, G, I
E. Character animator	7	D
F. Artificial Intelligence (for zombies)	7	none
G. Rendering engine	6	none
H. Humanoid base classes	3	none
I. Character classes	3	H
J. Zombie classes	3	H
K. Test environment	5	L
L. Test environment editor	6	C, G
M. Character library	9	B, E, I
N. Zombie library	15	B, J, O
O. Zombie editor	5	A, G, J
P. Zombie animator	6	O
Q. Character testing	4	K, M
R. Zombie testing	4	K, N

Creating PERT charts:

I suggest creating your PERT chart using pencil and paper. You can then use your smart-phone to take a picture of your completed diagram to upload to Canvas. Alternately, you may use diagram software on your computer.

Uploading your solution:

Please upload a PERT chart in either PDF (Acrobat) format or as a PNG format image file.